Old footage of Bill Gates speaking about Covid-19 vaccines is circulating in social media posts that falsely link his comments to a wave of child deaths in Indonesia from kidney problems. The posts falsely claim the billionaire philanthropist predicted that side effects from the vaccines would appear after two years, apparently blaming the jabs for the deaths. However, Gates was in fact calling for authorities to approve Covid-19 vaccines quickly, not "predicting" side effects. Indonesian authorities linked the deaths to syrup medicines which have since been banned, not Covid-19 vaccines.

The video of American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates speaking in a TV interview in April 20220 was uploaded here on Instagram on October 22, 2022, where it has been viewed more than 48,000 times.

"Bill Gates says the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines will appear after two years," reads Indonesian-language text in Indonesian superimposed on the footage.

The clip also included a screenshot of tweet from Indonesian anti-vaccine former physician Dr Lois Owen from June 2021, which shared Gates' video interview and claimed that Covid-19 vaccines would cause kidney failure, among other conditions.

"What she said is now proven," the caption of the Instagram post partly reads.

The posts was shared days after the Indonesia health ministry announced in mid-October 2022 a spike in child deaths from acute kidney injury in Indonesia.

Acute kidney injury cases, which had killed nearly 200...

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